Bug#472199: need a tool to create dep-5 file from source file

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: retitle -1 licensecheck: DEP-5 output is imperfect
Control: block -1 by 828941 837973

Quoting Lars Kruse (2018-05-22 02:17:49)
> currently the following methods for creating a DEP-5 compliant 
> copyright file:
> 
>  debmake -c
>  cme check dpkg-copyright
>  licensecheck -r --merge-licenses --deb-machine .
>
> Thus this wishlist bug can probably be closed.

Let's instead repurpose this bugreport to track making _ideal_ DEP5 
output with licensecheck.

What we have now is this:

  licensecheck -r --merge-licenses --deb-machine --lines 0 .

The plan is to integrate these scripts:

  cdbs:/usr/lib/cdbs/license-miner
  cdbs:/usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5

When that's done, we will likely have different opinions on what is 
ideal - how aggressively (and thus slow) licensecheck should scan, and 
how the DEP-5 output should be laid out (e.g. if same-licensed files by 
different authors should be grouped or not).  Hopefully we can identify 
some broad patterns that groups of us can agree on being ideal, and 
licensecheck can offer such "profiles" under a --usage option.


 - Jonas

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